Well, as I said in chat ahead of the event, I am going through a change in controls - I'm moving from having the gearstick, set sequentially, on the right of the wheel, to being on the left (correct) side and using the H gate (it's the rF Caterhams that have prompted the change, oddly enough) - and it bit me a couple of times. Still, I managed to have huge fun in these 2 cars.
When I got it right (generally when the track was fairly empty and I could concentrate on the shifting) I was OK and on pace, but once in the heat of battle and I had to concentrate on avoiding people as well as driving, the old habits got me into a few spots of bother, reaching with my right hand for a gear stick that wasn't there, trying to push the stick in 3rd for a sequential drop to 2nd, and the stick not moving, all that jazz.
It's a learning curve, and I'm going to put the time in to get it so it feels natural, comfortable and instinctive enough so it doesn't cause problems.
All that aside, I think I still prefer the TT to the Corolla with the setups I'd managed to cobble together. Both races were very good fun, even if they didn't quite go according to plan for me on the results side, but as we all know that is not really what Club Racing is about, and so I had my battles with whomever I was closest to at the time, and it was, as always, colossally grin inducing.
Thanks all for turning up, and it sounds like you enjoyed it, so it was all worthwhile
One more thing, just a reminder about the qualifying rules when it's flagged as a single timed lap:
This means you get your outlap, your hot lap, and an inlap or quit to garage lap.
If you stuff up your hotlap (crash / spin / cut track), that is tough luck.
You do NOT keep going until you get a time.
